Today, I arrived in Africa to start my new job. I agreed to come to a city with little to no electricity, and poor water for triple the money I was making in Canada. I just realized my boss and I negotiated in two completely different currencies, and I'm now making half of what I used to. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after years of lobbying for a travel job, I'm finally in Africa. Everything I eat or drink comes violently back out both directions. When I don't eat or drink, I pass out. Essentially I have to choose between illness and consciousness. Hello, fabulous new job. FML
Today, I got a new title at work. My boss hyped it up and made it sound amazing, so I accepted. Come to find out it pays 20k less a year and is twice as much work. FML
Today, I accepted a great job offer I've been working months to earn so I can continue to live with my fiancé here in Poland. I just found out that my work visa was denied. Now I have to fly home to Canada and reapply before coming back. This takes a month. My new job starts tomorrow. FML
Today, it was my first day of work at my new job. I got dressed and arrived early, only to find out that the store had closed due to a power outage. Then I found out that the person who'd hired me had totally forgotten about hiring me anyway. FML
Today, I was forced into accepting a "promotion" for a position that pays less than what I get right now. FML
Today, I got a call from a job I had applied for. Everything went great until I realized I had applied to the wrong location, across town. I'm so broke, I went to the interview anyway. It will cost me more to pay for the gas to drive there to work, than what I will actually make. FML
Today, I have manager-level education, an MBA, a second management master's, and I'm on my way for a PhD, but I'm also a migrant who is stuck doing a shitty job because the damn country I have migrated to (Canada) has very little regards for previous non-canadian work experience, even as a manager! I gave up so much for this!? FML
Today, I landed my dream job with an international company. I figured I could work this until retirement, only to find out they hired me to shut down operations in my market. FML
Today, I started a new job. The hours are long, but I didn't mind as I could REALLY use the overtime. Turns out, they don't pay over time. I'm just expected to go "above and beyond for the company." FML
Today, I realized that I spend more money on gas to go to my job than what I get paid. FML
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Top comments
DavLynn 4
well you shouldn't complain, Africa isn't that rich. believe it or not what youre making is worth more in Africa.
jaff23 11
How could you be so stupid? Damn I feel sorry for you.
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Comments (187)
instantmusic 4
Truly FML worthy. But I do have to say YDI. Little details, little details...
bettyc4 26
always get it in writing
CurlyChica808 4
I modded this :D sorry OP, that really stinks:(
RoseVee 2
Well at least you're not working in Libya!
fadingaway 17
YDI for agreeing to go to a poor town in Northern Africa and expecting to make a lot of money. Either go to South Africa or go back to Canada.
perdix 31
I'm a deposed African prince with frozen assets. If you give me your bank account and routing numbers, I will move my money to your account and let you have 20% of it. You'll have plenty of money in Sudan.
coolbeanbox 0
Go to Cape Town, South Africa. Most AMAZING city ever :D x
SneakherHead 5
At least you get to live with the lions, cheetahs and they have a red mango :)
KataraTheBender 0
You didn't realize that? You idiot.
teh_uber_muffin 3
You deserve it, you uneducated piece of horseshit. Don't spend all of your rupees at one place, idiot.
thebadmanpuntedb 7
Your profile pic looks pretty sophisticated. Just wondering if you are of the male gender or the female. Or is there a halfway?
Aliyette 0
Ummm rupees are in the middle east. Not Africa.
a_nutritionist 10
@146 shes not going to understand unless you finish that sentence with "you uneducated piece of horseshit".